The wickedness of the world. CHAPTER VI. The form, and end of the ark. 18 And Jared lived an hun- | B.C.3382. | B.C.2469. | 5¶ And GoD saw that the wickdred sixty and two years, and Jude 14, Or, the he begati Enoch: 15. 3317. whole nation: edness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts ofhis heart was only evil continually. 18 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters 6 And fit repented the LORD 20 And all the days of Jared rew word that he had made man on the were nine hundred sixty and signifieth earth, and it grieved him at not only his heart. two years; and he died. 21 And Enoch lived sixty and tGr. Ma-ination, the imag fiveyears and begatMethuselah: thusalu. 22 And Enoch kwalked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: 24 And Enoch walked with God, and he was not: for God took him. seven 7 And the LORD said, I will but also, destroy man whom I have crethe purated from the face of the ch. 6. 9. poses and earth; tboth inan and beast, & 17.1. & desires. and the creeping thing, and the ech. 8. 21. fowls of the air; for it repentKi.20. 3. De.29.19. eth me that I have made them. Ps. 16. 8. Pr. 6. 18. 8 But Noah found grace in 24. 40. & 116. 9. Mt.15. 19. & 128. Lt Hb. ev- 2448. f See Nu. 12Ki.2.11. 23. 19. He. 11.5.1 Sa. 15. 3130. 25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and years, and begat Lamech: 26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hun-t Heb. dred eighty and two years, and Lemech. begat sons and daughters: 27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years; and he died. 28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: 29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground "which the LORD hath cursed. 2948. ↑ Gr. 11, 29. 2 Sa. 24. 16. Mal. 3. 6. Ja. 1. 17. 18.63.10. Ep. 4. 30. † Heb. from man un to beast. heh.19.19. Lu. 3. 36. Ex. 33.12, 13, 16, 17. Lu. 1. 30. Ac. 7.46. ich. 7. 1. 20. Ro. 1. Ez.14. 14, 17. He.l1. 1 Pe.3.20.7.2Pe.2.5. That is, the eyes of the LORD. 9 These are the generations of Noah: iNoah was a just man, and perfect in his generations, and Noah kwalked with God. 10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11 The earth also was corrupt before God; and the earth was "filled with violence. 12 And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. 13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them: and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. pher-wood: trooms shalt thou 14 Make thee an ark of gomake in the ark, and shalt pitch 30 And Lamech lived after he 15 And this is the fashion it within and without with pitch. begat Noah five hundred nine-rest, or, right. ty and five years, and begat comfort. kel.5. 22. which thou shalt make it of: sons and daughters: Ich, 5. 32. The length of the ark shall be mch. 7. 1. three hundred cubits, the & 10.9.& breadth of it fifty cubits, and 13.13.2Ch the height of it thirty cubits. 34.27. Lu. 16 A window shalt thou make 1.6. Ro 2. to the ark, and in a cubit shalt 13. &3.19. thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof: with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. Or, up BEZ.8.17. 17. ch. 18. 21. Ps. 14. 17 And behold, I, even 1, do 2.&33. 13, bring a flood of waters upon the AND it came to pass on the "ch. 1.28 14. & 53. men began to multiply face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the 4. daughters of men that they bDe.7.3. 4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown. 39. 2469. 2, 3. ver. 17. nests. earth, to destroy all flesh, where P'Je. 51. in is the breath of life, from r ver. 13. ch.7.4, 21, 5. tch.7.8, 9, 7 "ch. 6. 20. 21 And take thou unto thee of B.C.2448. B.C.2349. 22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he. CHAPTER VII. Noah, with his family, and the living creatures, enter into the ark, 1. 17 The beginning, increase, and continuance of the flood, ANDLORD oid dat Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark: for bthee have I seen righteous be w He. 11. He. 11. 7. Lu.17.26. 2 Pe. 2 5. b ch. 6. 9. 8. fore me in this generation. ver. 2,3. Pv. 4, 12. 26. Ps.104. Ps.104.6 Sch. 6. 13, Job 22.16. tHb. sev en seven. Le.10.10 ch. 2. 7. Ez.44. 23. tHb. the het breath of of life. 6 And Noah was six hundred 7And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him,into the ark,because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And it came to pass, after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12k And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 In the self-same day lentered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of kver.4,17. Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons ch. 6. 18. with them, into the ark: 14 They, and every beast af-1 Pe.3.20. † Heb. ter his kind, and all the cattle 2 Pe 2. 5. were in after their kind, and every mver.2.3, and degoing creeping thing that creepeth 8, 9. upon the earth after his kind, † Heb. in The waters assuage 15 And they went inuntoNoah into the ark, two and two of all flesh,whereinisthebreathoflife. 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, "as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. 17 PAnd the flood was forty days upon the earth and the waters increased, aud bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. 18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon earth: "and the 19 And the waters prevailed exupon the face of the waters. ceedingly upon the earth: 'and all the high hills that wereunder the whole heaven were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail: and the mountains were covered. 21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that 23 And every living substance was in the dry land, died. was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth; and "Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. CHAPTER VIII. AND God remembered Noah 2 The fountains also of the 4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. continually, until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the mouth, were the tops of the mountains seen. 5 And the waters decreased ch. 9. 11, God blessed him. 6And it came to pass at the B.C.2349. B.C.2348. his youth: "neither will I again end of forty days, that Noah fch. 6. 16. smite any more every thing livopened fthe window of the ark ing, as I have done. which he had made: 7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground. 9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark; for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. 10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again hesent forth the dove out of the ark. 11 And the dove came in to him in the evening, and lo, in her mouth was an olive-leaf pluckt off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 12 And he stayed yet other sevendays, and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. 13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. 15 And God spake unto Noah, saying, 16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. 15. Pls. 54.8. Heb. As yet all The days † Heb.in going forth and returning. of the earth. Je. 33. 20, 25. † Heb. caused her to come. 2348. ach. 1. 28. ver. 7, 19. ch. 10. 32. beh 1. 28. Ho. 2. 18. De 12.15 & 14.3,9, 11.Ac. 10. 12, 13. deh. 1. 29. Ro. 14. 14, 20. 1 Co.10, 23, 26. Col. 2. 3, 4. 22 PWhile the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease. CHAPTER IX. God blesseth Noah, L. 4 Blood and A 2 bAnd the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; intoyour hands arethey delivered. 3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the dgreen herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. 5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require: Sat the hand 16.1 Ti..of every beast will I require it, and hat the hand of man; at the hand of every iman's brother will require the life of man. 6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, bykman shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. 17 Bringforth with thee hevery bcl. 7. 15. iAc. 17.26 ↑ Heb. families. Le. ch. Le. 1.9. Ez. 20.41. 2 Co.2.15. Ep. 5. 2. ↑ Heb. a savour of rest. ly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him: 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their jkinds, went forth out of the ark. 20 And Noah builded an al-ch. 3.17 tar unto the LORD, and took of kevery clean beast, and of eve-Or, ry clean fowl,and offered burnt- though. offerings on the altar. & 6. 17. Ps. 51. 5. Mt. 26.52. Re. 13.10. h. 1. 27. mer. 1 19. & ch. 1. 28. ch. 6. 18 "Is. 54. 9. PPs. 145. 9. 9Is. 54. 9. ch.17.11. nel. 6, 5. 21 And the LORD smelled la Job 14.4. sweet savour; and the LORD & 15. 14. Re. 4. 3. said in his heart, I will not again J. 17. 9. curse the ground any more for Mt. 15.19. man's sake; for the "imagina-Ro. 1. 21. tion of man's heart is evil from & 3. 23. 7 And you, be mye fruitful, and multiply: bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. 8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 9 And I, "behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 10 PAnd with every living creaof the cattle, and of every beast ture that is with you, of the fowl, of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. 12 And God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every livingcreature thatiswith you, for perpetual generations. 13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 And it shall come to pass, shal The covenant of the rainbow. GENESIS. when I bring a cloud over the | B.C.2348.| B.C.1998. earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15 And "I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you, and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. "Ex. 28. 12. Le.26. 42,45. Ez. 16. 60. 16 And the bow shall be in the cloud and I will look upon it, that I may remember "the ever-ch. 17. lasting covenant between God 13, 19. and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. 17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. 2347. "Or, as some read it, Rodanim. CPs. 72.10 Je. 2. 10. & 25. 22. Zep. 2.11. di Co. L. 8, &c. cir. 2218. 18 And the sons of Noah that went forth oftheark,wereShem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. † Heb. 19 These are the three sons of Noah and of them was the ch. 10. 6. Chenaan Yel. 5. 32. Je. 16.16 M. 7. 2. fch. 6. 11. ch.10.32. Mi. 5. 6. &c. Gr. Babylon whole earth overspread. 20 And Noah began to be "a1 Ch. 1.4, husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 21 And he drank of the wine, Dand was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Ca-1 naan, saw the nakedness of his 12. father, and told his two brethren without. 23 And Shem and Japheth Ex. 20. took a garment, and laid it up. 12. Ga. 6. on both their shoulders, and 1. went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. 24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. 25 And he said, dCursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 26 And he said, 'Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. 27 God shall enlarge Japheth, Band he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. 28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty Or, he went out into As syrra. Or, the streets of the city. The generations of Noah. and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togar. mah. 4 And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 5 By these were the isles ofthe Gentiles divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. 64And the sonsof Ham; Cush and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. 7 And the sons of Cush; Seba and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha; and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. 8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter fbefore the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. 10 And the beginning of his kingdom wast Babel,and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar, 11 Out of that land || went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, 12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city. 13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim,and Naphtulim, 14 And Pathrusim, and CasluhiCh. 1. him, (hout of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim. 16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, 17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, 18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanitesspread abroad. 19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto t Gaza; as thou goest unto Sodom and Gomorrah,and Admah,and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. 20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations. 21 ¶ Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, thebrotherof Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. 22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and i Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. 23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. 24 And Arphaxad begat † 'Sach. 11.12. lah; and Salah begat Eber. The confusion of tongues. 25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. CHAPTER XI. B. C. cir. 2218. m1 Ch. 1. 19. 2247. 26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarma-That is, veth, and Jerah, 27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, 28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, 29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan. 30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar, a mount of the east. 31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. division. 32 These are the families of "ver. 1. the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: "and "ch. 9. 19. by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. CHAPTER XI. One language in the world, 1. 3 The building of Babel. 5 The confusion of tongues. 10 The generations of Shem. 27 The generations of Terah the father of Abram. 31 Terah goeth from Ur to Haran. ANDthe wholeearthwasofone B. C. The generations of Shem 10 1These are the generacir. 2247. tions of Shem: Shem was an Ich. 10.22. hundred years old, and begat 1 Ch.1.17. Arphaxad two years after the flood: 2346. 2311. mSee Lu. 3. 36. 2281. 2247. Bị Ch. 1. 19. "Called, L. 3, 35, Phalec. 2217. 2185. 11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: 13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. 14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: 15 And Salah lived after he begatEber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. 16" And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat "Peleg: 17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. 18 And Peleglived thirty years, and begat Reu: 19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daugh ters. 20 And Reu lived two and thir Alanguage,and of one speech. † Heb.lip PLu.3 35, ty years, and begat PSerug: 2 And it came to pass, as they † Heb. journeyed from the east, that words. they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. cir. 2247. 3 And t they said one to ano-Or,eastther, Go to, let us make brick, wurd, as and t burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5bAnd the LORD came down to them to a see the cityand thetower, which burning. the children of men builded. aDe. 1.28.1 Ch.1.26. 6 And the LORD said, Behold, bch.18.21. the people is one, and they have all done language; and this ch. 9. 19 they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 2056. Jos.24.2. 1996. 26 And Terah lived seventy years, and 'begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran: and Haran begat Lot. 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. 29 And Abrain and Nahor took them wives.the name of Abram's wife was "Sarai; and the naine of Nahor's wife Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. 30 But "Sarai was barren; she 2.& 18.11, had no child. ch. 12.1. son,and Lot the son of Haran his 31 And Terah "took Abram his 7 Go to, flet us go down, and there confound their language, Ac. 2.4,5, that they may not understand 6. Sch. 17.15. Sch.42.23. & 20. 12. one another's speech. 8 Sobthe LORD scattered them De. 28.49. tel. 22.20. abroad from thence iupon the 1 Co. 14. Je. 5. 15. face of all the earth: and they 2, 11. left off to build the city. ch. 16. 1, bLu. 1.51. 12. ich. 10.25, 32. That is, 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and confu from thence did the LORD scat- sion. terthem abroad upon the face of ki Co. 14. all the earth. 23. son's son, and Sarai his daugh ter-in-law,hisson Abram'swife: Ne. 9. 7. and they went forth with them Ac. 7. 4. from Ur of the Chaldees, to go Ych. 10.19 into the land of Canaan; and 11 |